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Thornton Winery Champagne Jazz: Richard Marx

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Thornton Winery Champagne Jazz: Richard Marx

May 23, 2026 Thornton Winery, 32575 Rancho Cali…

Thornton Winery, 32575 Rancho California Rd, Temecula. May 23rd. Richard Marx at the Champagne Jazz Series — the outdoor concert format that Thornton Winery has been perfecting since 1988, in a vineyard setting that makes the whole evening feel like the specific California life that wine country is trying to be. The Champagne Jazz Series puts artists on an outdoor stage in the middle of Temecula wine country, with the vineyard visible from every seat and the Rancho California hills holding the sound in the early evening. Richard Marx — whose catalog runs from "Endless Summer Nights" to "Right Here Waiting" to the ballads that lived on every mixtape of a certain era — brings exactly the material that works in this setting. It is not a small thing to hear a song you know completely, performed live, with the sun going down over the vines. thorntonwine.com for ticket details and the Champagne Jazz Series schedule. May 23rd. The outdoor setting means arrive early enough to find your space before the show. Wine tasting runs before the concert. The dinner option pairs with the experience if you're making a full evening of wine country at its best version of itself.

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Colorblind + Windwaker + If Not For Me

May 23, 2026 1234 West 7th Street, Teragram Bal…

Teragram Ballroom, 1234 West 7th Street, Los Angeles. May 23rd. Three bands — Colorblind, Windwaker, and If Not For Me — converging on a West 7th venue that handles multi-artist bills the way bills like this need to be handled: standing floor, a sight line from any position in the room, the sound at the level the bands came for. A three-act bill is the format where the night builds. The opening act sets the temperature. The middle act raises it. By the time the headliner takes the stage, the room knows what it's doing. Teragram is the Los Angeles venue that holds this kind of bill at exactly the right density — full enough that the energy compounds, not so packed that you lose the experience of each performance. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 23rd in Downtown Los Angeles. The Teragram is accessible from all of LA and a clean shot from Orange County on the 110. Get there early. The opening act is where the night's first discovery happens.

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K-EXPO USA 2026 — Los Angeles

May 21 – May 22, 2026 From $35 LA LIVE, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los A…

K-EXPO USA brings the Korean cultural wave to LA LIVE on May 21-22, 2026 — K-pop performances, K-food vendors, K-beauty showcases, K-drama panels, and Taekwondo demonstrations under one roof. P1Harmony is confirmed as a headline act for the K-pop showcase stage. K-EXPO USA is not a concert — it is a cultural immersion experience across Korean fashion, food, film, and music. LA LIVE offers free parking with validation. General admission tickets available online. VIP packages include early entry, exclusive merchandise, and meet-and-greet access. The event draws fans from across Southern California and is particularly strong for K-pop communities in the LA basin. This is the event that shows you why the Korean Wave has become the most dominant cultural export story of the last decade. May 21-22, 2026. All ages.

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YUNGBLUD: IDOLS - THE WORLD TOUR

May 22, 2026 2700 N. Vermont Ave, Greek Theatre…

YUNGBLUD — the Doncaster artist who turned emo and pop-punk and glam rock and TikTok all into a single vehicle and drove it directly at an audience that was already waiting for exactly this — bringing the IDOLS World Tour to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on May 22nd. The Greek Theatre is the right size for what YUNGBLUD does live. He performs for rooms that want to be performed at, and the Greek at 5,800 seats is the scale where the production can expand and the crowd can still feel like a crowd rather than a field. The Idols era is the most musically developed version of what he's been building — the hooks hit harder, and the live translation of that material is where this artist actually lives. The Greek in late May is Los Angeles outdoor concert season at its best. The hill fills before the first song. Get your ticket before the sections you want close. If you've been watching this tour build on social, the Greek date is the Los Angeles chapter of a story worth being inside.

Queen Bee's Open Mic Night — 1st & 3rd Thursdays

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Queen Bee's Open Mic Night — 1st & 3rd Thursdays

May 21 – May 22, 2026 Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center,…

Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center hosts a bi-monthly open mic on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 8 PM — San Diego's most genuinely community-driven open mic, covering music, comedy, poetry, spoken word, and whatever else someone brings to a room that takes all of it seriously. Queen Bee's is a community arts space in North Park, not a bar with a side open mic. The difference matters: the crowd shows up for the performers rather than the other way around, which means the open mic has a different energy than most. People who have never performed in front of an audience have done their first set here. People who perform regularly keep coming back because the room is honest. The format is simple: sign up before the show, get your five to seven minutes, be respectful of the other performers. The genres are genuinely mixed — a singer-songwriter might follow a stand-up comedian who follows a slam poet. The quality varies, which is the point. Some of the best sets come from people who do not look like they are about to do something remarkable. Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St, San Diego, CA 92104. North Park neighborhood. The 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at 8 PM. Low or no cover. Street parking on Ohio St and surrounding North Park streets. Check openmicsandiego.com or Queen Bee's social media for same-night confirmation.

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Leftover Crack

May 19, 2026 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., The Observat…

There are rooms in Santa Ana where live music works differently, and The Observatory is one of them — the kind of space where the low end hits before the volume registers. Leftover Crack performs at The Observatory in Santa Ana on May 19, 2026. Doors at 6:00 PM, show at 7:00 PM, All Ages. There is no second chance at this particular night in this particular room — that is the only thing a live show offers that recordings can't replicate.

San Diego Padres vs LA Dodgers at Petco Park — May Series

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San Diego Padres vs LA Dodgers at Petco Park — May Series

May 18, 2026 100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

The Dodgers come to Petco Park on May 18 and the city of San Diego responds accordingly. There is no series on the Padres home calendar more anticipated, more contested, or more capable of generating the kind of atmosphere that makes you grateful you showed up than the Padres vs Dodgers — the rivalry that defines National League West baseball and has been doing so for three decades. The Dodgers travel with one of the largest away contingents in baseball, and Petco Park absorbs their presence with the particular energy of a home crowd that has spent the whole year preparing to outsell the visitors on noise. This is the rivalry with the most history, the most intensity, and the most consequence — and in May, with both clubs jockeying for the top of the NL West, every inning matters at a level that regular-season baseball often cannot replicate.

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VANA: THE LADY IN RED TOUR

May 17, 2026 400 W Disney Way, #337, The Parish…

The Parish at House of Blues Anaheim, 400 W Disney Way. May 17th. VANA: The Lady in Red Tour at the Parish — a night of live music in the mid-cap room that handles this kind of intimate touring show exactly the way it needs to be handled. The Parish at Anaheim is the House of Blues room that works for this level of performance: close to the stage, the sound system designed for the genre, a standing floor that creates the audience dynamic that makes a smaller show feel like an event rather than a club night. VANA brings the Lady in Red material to the West Coast on a tour that is designed specifically for rooms this size. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 17th. The Disney Way location is accessible from across Orange County and makes an easy shot from LA. If you've been following VANA and waiting for the Southern California date, this is the Anaheim show. Get your ticket and get there early enough to be where you want to be when the first song starts. The Parish fills from the stage back.

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Camerata Pacifica

May 17, 2026 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Scherr…

Scherr Forum, 2100 E Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks. May 17th. Camerata Pacifica at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center — the chamber music ensemble that has been building its Thousand Oaks audience for decades by playing serious music in a room that takes it seriously. Chamber music is the most intimate scale of classical performance. The ensemble is small enough that the individual instruments are audible as individual voices — the cello has a line distinct from the bass, the violin is a separate conversation from the viola, the piano is a third thing entirely. The Scherr Forum's acoustics make that distinction legible in a way that a larger hall can't. Camerata Pacifica has been programming this experience for a Conejo Valley audience that has come back year after year because the music earns the room. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 17th. If you haven't been to a chamber concert and have been curious whether it's something that lands for you, this is the ensemble and the room to find out. If you've been coming to Camerata Pacifica for years, you already know. Either way, the Scherr Forum on a May evening with a program built by people who know what this room can do is worth the drive.

Comedy Heights at Twiggs Coffee Roasters

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Comedy Heights at Twiggs Coffee Roasters

May 16 – May 17, 2026 Twiggs Coffee Roasters, 4590 Park …

Comedy Heights at Twiggs Coffee Roasters is San Diego's best free weekly stand-up comedy show — every Saturday night at 8 PM in the backroom of a University Heights coffee shop, featuring local comedians and touring headliners in a room that holds maybe a hundred people and feels like a secret even after years of operation. This is the San Diego comedy community at its most essential. No cover charge, no drink minimum, no corporate backing — just a room, a mic, and the comedians who have been coming to Twiggs for years because the audience is real and the energy is right. Comedy Heights has been running this show long enough to have alumni who went on to national recognition, which makes every Saturday feel like you might be in the room for someone's breakthrough set. The format varies by week — sometimes it is a rotating lineup of working comedians, sometimes it is a themed showcase, sometimes it is a marathon night with a headliner closing. The booking is consistently better than you would expect from a free show. Tips are encouraged. Cash bar. Show starts at 8 PM; arrive early because the room fills. Twiggs Coffee Roasters, 4590 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92116. University Heights neighborhood. Street parking on Park Blvd and surrounding streets. The 2 bus runs along Park Blvd. Free to attend — tip your server and the comedians.

San Diego FC vs FC Cincinnati at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego FC vs FC Cincinnati at Snapdragon Stadium

May 16, 2026 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

San Diego FC welcome FC Cincinnati to Snapdragon Stadium on May 16 — an Eastern Conference visitor who carries genuine silverware ambitions and a well-organized identity. These midweek MLS home matches carry a particular energy: weeknight kickoffs at Snapdragon draw a crowd that knows where they want to be on a Friday evening, and they arrive ready. FC Cincinnati has grown into one of the league's most interesting clubs, with a supporter culture that travels and creates noise in every away stadium they visit. San Diego answers in kind — the rooftop terrace, the east lower bowl, the northwest corner where the most vocal home support congregates. San Diego FC are in their second year, which means the first novelty has settled and the real work of building a club identity is underway. The fans who showed up in year one now understand what game weeks look like here. May 16 at Snapdragon is a Friday evening in San Diego spent exactly as it should be. San Diego FC's first MLS season is building a supporter culture in real time — the stadium atmosphere at Snapdragon grows with each home result as the fan community finds its language. Weeknight kickoffs draw the core supporters, the people who planned around it. Snapdragon Stadium at SDSU — parking on-site and via the Green Line trolley to the Aztec stadium stop. The supporter section is south end. It is getting louder.

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Hillcrest City Fest 2026

May 16, 2026 University Ave, Hillcrest, San Die…

University Avenue shuts down on May 16th and Hillcrest becomes the only version of itself worth seeing. The Hillcrest City Fest fills the blocks between the storefronts and the residences and turns the neighborhood's daily character into a festival that knows exactly who it's for and doesn't apologize for it. This is the Hillcrest that locals mean when they explain why they live here. The vendor rows mix food and craft and local small business in the way that only a neighborhood festival can — not a sponsored activation but the actual community showing up. The live music stages carry local artists who play the neighborhood year-round. The food options cover every category that University Ave covers on any given Tuesday, just concentrated and celebrating. Free admission. May 16th. Arrive mid-morning before the sun gets serious, find your section, and stay until the light changes. The Hillcrest City Fest has the specific energy of a neighborhood that knows its identity and has built a festival around it instead of around what a broader audience might expect. That's the right kind of festival. hillcrestcityfest.com for the lineup and the stage schedule. Bring comfortable shoes and a low agenda. The festival handles the rest.

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Pennywise

May 16, 2026 400 W Disney Way, #337, House of B…

House of Blues Anaheim, 400 W Disney Way. May 16th. Pennywise — the Hermosa Beach band that has been making Southern California punk rock since 1988, who are in the conversation for the most consistent live act that genre has produced — returning to Anaheim on the tour that makes no concessions and never has. Pennywise live is the reminder that Southern California punk was always a work ethic before it was an aesthetic. The band plays hard every single night because that is what the songs require and the crowd expects. The House of Blues Anaheim handles this scale of punk show correctly — the floor is built for it, the sound system is calibrated for it, and the crowd that comes for Pennywise knows exactly what it's walking into. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 16th. Pennywise at the House of Blues Anaheim is the homecoming show the Southern California punk community has been waiting for. Whether you've been listening since "About Time" or found the band later and want to understand what the live show has always meant — be in the room. May 16th.

The Neil Diamond Concert Experience starring Rob G

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The Neil Diamond Concert Experience starring Rob G

May 16, 2026 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Scherr…

Scherr Forum, 2100 E Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks. May 16th. The Neil Diamond Concert Experience — starring Rob Garrett in the role built for a voice like Neil Diamond's, at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center, in a show designed to bring that catalog to a theater that can hold it properly. Neil Diamond's songs are American cultural furniture. "Sweet Caroline." "Cherry Cherry." "Song Sung Blue." "I Am, I Said." "Hello Again." The catalog is the thing — songs that have been sung in stadiums and kitchen radios and karaoke bars for fifty years, each one recognizable in the first four notes, each one carrying the specific weight of wherever you were when it mattered most to you. The Scherr Forum is a proper performing arts venue with the sound and the sightlines to make a tribute concert feel like the event it's designed to be. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 16th in Thousand Oaks. A Neil Diamond tribute in a room this size, with a voice built for this material, is the version of the concert that the recording approximates. Come ready to sing.

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Cumbiatron - The Cumbia Rave

May 15, 2026 1050 South Hill Street, The Belasc…

The Belasco, 1050 South Hill St, Los Angeles. May 15th. Cumbiatron — the Cumbia Rave — at the Belasco, which is the Downtown LA venue that handles this kind of night at the right scale: the space, the sound, the crowd that came specifically for this. Cumbia is one of the most durable rhythms in Latin music — the bass pattern, the accordion, the percussion that locks into something your body knows before your brain catches up. The rave format takes that rhythm and puts it in a room designed for dancing, at volume, with a crowd that has been waiting for exactly this configuration all week. The Belasco floor is built for it. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 15th. The Latin music community in Los Angeles shows up for cumbia events in numbers that remind you how large that community is and how specific its taste runs. A cumbia rave at the Belasco is the version of this music that lives in the physical experience of being in the room — the bass, the crowd, the specific joy of a rhythm that has been making people move for seventy years and hasn't lost a step.

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Downtown LA Art Walk — May 2026

May 14, 2026 Free Historic Core, Spring St & Main St…

The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk happens on the second Thursday of every month from 6 to 10 PM across the Historic Core galleries, studios, and cultural spaces clustered on Spring Street and Main Street between 3rd and 9th. It has been running continuously since 2004 and draws between 5,000 and 10,000 people on a typical night. The format is self-guided. No wristband, no single entrance, no ticketed main stage. You walk. Galleries extend opening hours and host receptions, live music, and artist talks. Boutiques, bars, and restaurants along the route stay open late. Street art installations appear in parking lots and alleys. Pop-up vendors set up between gallery hops. The crowd skews young and creative — designers, photographers, muralists, and the people who follow them. It is one of the few monthly events in LA that reliably brings out the local art community rather than the art-adjacent tourist circuit. Parking is available in DTLA surface lots and garages. The nearest Metro stops are Pershing Square (B/D Lines) and 7th St/Metro Center (A/E/B/D Lines). Most people walk between venues. Wear comfortable shoes. The event is free to attend — individual galleries may have ticketed openings happening the same night.

MGNA Crrrta - The Beautiful Disaster Tour

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MGNA Crrrta - The Beautiful Disaster Tour

May 14, 2026 400 W Disney Way, #337, The Parish…

The Parish at House of Blues Anaheim, 400 W Disney Way. May 14th. MGNA Crrrta — the project built on the collision of distortion and emotional honesty — brings the Beautiful Disaster Tour to Anaheim in the mid-size room that makes this kind of night exactly what it's supposed to be. The Parish is the venue that closes the gap between the artist and the room. No jumbotron. No GA floor that spreads the crowd too thin. The sound system is House of Blues infrastructure at a scale where the nuance of the performance — the dynamics, the space between the loud parts — actually lands. The Beautiful Disaster Tour is a named concept, which means the setlist was built as a document, not a playlist. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 14th in Anaheim. If you've been tracking MGNA Crrrta and waiting for the Southern California date, this is it. The Parish fills early for the acts that know how to use the room. Get your ticket before the floor goes.

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Java Joe's Open Mic — Bi-Weekly Tuesdays

May 12, 2026 Java Joe's Coffee House, San Diego…

Java Joe's Open Mic runs every Tuesday from 6:30 to 9:30 PM — one of San Diego's most active weekly music open mics, hosted by Gaby Aparicio, covering all genres from singer-songwriters to acoustic bands to experimental solo performers. Open mics at Java Joe's operate on the community model: you show up, you sign up, you get your time. The host keeps the order honest and the atmosphere welcoming. The crowd is a mix of performers waiting for their slot and genuine listeners who come because the format produces surprises — you never know who is going to get up and do something remarkable on any given Tuesday night. The venue is a coffee house, which means the room listens rather than talks over the performers. That acoustic reality shapes the open mic: quieter instruments are viable, dynamics are audible, and the audience is closer to the performance than in a bar. If you have never performed in public and are looking for the least intimidating entry point in San Diego, this is a strong candidate. Java Joe's, San Diego, CA. Every Tuesday, 6:30-9:30 PM. Free admission. Check Facebook (facebook.com/javajoesopenmic) for address confirmation and any scheduling updates — the venue has had multiple locations over the years. Arrive by 6 PM to sign up for your slot before the list fills.

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